(The Associated Press circulated the following on March 14, 2010.)
WILMINGTON, Del. — Amtrak service is returning to normal after stormy weather shut down passenger rail lines on the northeast corridor.
Amtrak suspended service for hours Saturday evening between Philadelphia and New York. The rail agency says commercial power lines fell onto a section of overhead wires, which caused signal and switching problems.
Lois Glassman of Manhattan boarded an Amtrak Acela train in Washington about 4 p.m. Saturday. The train traveled through Philadelphia with no problem but slowed outside a station in Edison, N.J., about 6:30 p.m.
The train had to wait more than four hours before traveling on to New York.
Amtrak says service was resuming on two of the four tracks in the area by 12:30 a.m. Sunday.